Unpublished manuscript material, 1936-1942.

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Unpublished manuscript material, 1936-1942.

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Series consists of the following: 1)Manuscripts in various stages of completion for inventories that were never published. Some of the manuscripts appear to be final typescript ready for mimeographing, while others are only rough drafts. Also included among this manuscript material are miscellaneous pages excluded from published inventories. 2)Unpublished form reports on Ship Registers and Enrollments for the port of Baltimore, Md. 3) Unpublished abstracts prepared by the Central Pacific Islands Study, a Massachusetts WPA project, sponsored jointly by the National Archives and the State Department and directed locally by the State Director of the Survey of Federal Archives. The purpose of this project was to search Government records and other materials for information concerning the discovery, exploration, and occupation by Americans from New England ports of islands in the Central Pacific Ocean during the period 1790-1870.

28 linear ft. (35 boxes).

Denver art museum

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